The full data analysis reports and appendices by Professor Eric Uwadiegwu Ofoedu, a prominent witness for the Labour Party (LP) and Peter Obi, have been admitted into evidence by the Presidential Election Petitions Court.
Once the respondents agreed to postpone the cross-examination until later, the five-member panel, headed over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, admitted the papers on Thursday.
The Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State professor of mathematics and the witness, Professor Ofoedu, who the LP subpoenaed, also presented IREV scores, investigative analysis reports, and obscured downloads from Benue and Rivers states.
Initial objections to the tendering of the evidence were raised by lawyers for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on the grounds that they had not been served in time for them to be able to study them.
However, the respondents consented to let the witness adopt his documents and to be cross-examined later after LP lawyer Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) indicated that they were only able to file the witness statements under oath on Wednesday, leaving them with only Thursday morning to serve the respondents.
The justices were compelled to put the case on hold while the LP lawyers and the witness organised the paragraphs of their materials.
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